One day in spring 1974 a young German biologist, a little over 20 years, crossed the English border. Roland Lorkowski carried in his luggage 32 young catfish, a freshwater fish, prized by fishermen for their country. In the customs inspection procedures for the biologist said that the babies were going to serve to fish for pike in the marsh area Mequinenza.
The swamp was indeed his destiny. But a catfish fry were not killed. Lorkowski threw them into the water, confident in their calculations. His knowledge of the ecological balance of wetlands Mequinenza Riba-Roja and led him to predict that in a few years, and for various reasons, the two main predators in the swamps, pike and black bass, would suffer a considerable reduction. The biologist claimed that the main consequence of this would be the indiscriminate proliferation of the tents. And the proliferation of tents, in its end, could only pose a grave alteration of habitat.
Five years later, the fishermen began to take catfish in Mequinenza. Do not know what they drew. More specialized someone started talking, at most, that terrible animal that looked like a catfish mutation, attributable, no doubt, to the ravages of progress. But Lorkowski, regular holidaymaker in the area, scattered The news of the strange fish was none other than the great Danube catfish.
The traveler heard this story in the bars of the marshes, falling in the afternoon. It is easy to listen to anytime, anywhere. The hardest difficulty is in the name of the biologist, but otherwise, everyone knows it and repeats. The atmosphere is great. The spirit and excitement of fishing shows, as in the middle of the flock stamps, chess, any gray-the importance of having something to do in life. Fishers exhibit, sometimes with some ostentation, all European nationalities, predominantly German and English. Catfish spend all hours of your vacation. In Mequinenza nobody had heard again like volcanic laughter from the days of Eden, cabaret. He knows that the environment is not the most suitable, but the traveler has to fulfill its obligation.
- Lorkowski went to jail or just pay for it?
"No one bothered. Never. Nor should they bother. Then there was no law against doing what he did. Moreover, never say publicly that the young cast to water. What he did was illegal so now no one can deal with species. But it has been useful.
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